Pixar’s ONWARD gets a very different sort of trailer

Walt Disney Pictures released the first full trailer for the Pixar Animation movie Onwardthis morning, and it’s the first original non-sequel for the company since 2015’s The Good Dinosaur and Inside Out.

Featuring the voices of Tom Holland and Chris Pratt, last seen together in Avengers: Endgame, the movie follows two elf brothers, Ian and Barley, who find a magical item that can bring their long-dead father back, a plan that doesn’t go quite as planned, as you’ll see in the trailer. This sends them on a journey to finish the spell so that they can meet their father. (I guess the title “Elf Quest” was already taken?) The movie also features the voices of Julia Louis-Dreyfus and Octavia Spencer.

We previously saw a first look and a short teaser in May, but this new Onward trailer gives us a lot better idea of the tone and feel and look of the movie directed by Dan Scanlon and produced by Kori Rae of Monsters University.

Onward looks like a fun movie, but it also doesn’t look like any previous Pixar movie, and a lot of that might be just the fact that it’s been so long since we’ve seen a Pixar movie that wasn’t a sequel to another hit movie. (This is also the umpteenth trailer/commercial to rip-off Edgar Wright’s Baby Driver by using “Hocus Pocus” by Focus to drive the action.)

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Onward opens on March 6, 2020, which will also make it the first Pixar movie to not get a summer or holiday release EVER. (Disney and DreamWorks both have had some success with animated movies in March, so it’s probably nothing to worry too much about.)